CFP: Transoceanic Dialogues (2/15/07; journal issue)

full name / name of organization:

Salah Khan

contact email:

salah@techforpeople.net

Call for Papers: Transoceanic Dialogues

The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association will publish aspecial issue of its journal, Pacific Coast Philology, on transoceanicdialogues. We are soliciting submissions on literary and philologicalaspects of this topic. We invite papers in areas such as the following:

the maritime, navigation, and cartography in literature; ancientmariners; the cabinet of curiosities; cannibals and cannibalism; news,the New World, and the novel; transatlantic Romanticism; transoceanicracial, colonial, or postcolonial encounters; transoceanic cultural orlinguistic exchanges; empire and the technologies of the word;dissemination, preservation, creolization, and destruction of languagesin relation to world travel, trade, and colonization; transoceanicfeminisms; masculinities and maritime life; comparative studies in theliterature of slavery and abolition; diaspora and literary form;circumnavigation, globalization, and modernity; ethnography as aliterary form.

Guidelines for submission:

The usual length for essays is 4,500 to 8,000 words.Essays may be submitted as Word documents attached to an email.Author’s name and contact information should appear only in the coversheet to insure blind evaluation.In preparing manuscripts, contributors are asked to follow The MLA StyleManual.Submissions should arrive by 15 February 2007.